Difference between revisions of "2024-08-18 40 -74"

Revision as of 16:33, 25 August 2024

Location

On a pier on the western end of Long Island, in Brooklyn, NY

Participants

Yerushalmi (talk), his wife, #1, #3, #4

Plans

I'm visiting my parents in NJ and keeping an eye out for good geohashes. We'll drive down to Brooklyn, go to the pier, then spend the rest of the day in the city.

Expedition

The drive to the neighborhood of the pier was fine, but our originally intended route (park on 42nd street, walk northwest) was stymied by massive amounts of construction and closed roads. I and #3 approached a guard at the construction site who told us that access to Bush Terminal Park was from down on 50th street.

We returned to the car and drove down to 50th street. After a short encounter with more guards (we had started driving towards a restricted part of the pier), we found a parking space and walked into the park.

We walked past a couple of soccer fields and onto a path along the beach that led to the piers. The piers we passed looked interesting and fun, and we resolved to check them out on the way back, but the pier we wanted to reach...

Ah well. We enjoyed the breeze off the river, saw the Statue of Liberty off in the distance, and the kids collected some seashells. Not a complete waste of a journey.

Photos

Closed pier for construction
Still closed even if I turn to the left a bit
The river
Where we should have been
Statue of Liberty in the background, #3 in the foreground
Zoom in on the Statue of Liberty
Some interesting algae

Achievements

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 == Location ==
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+On a pier on the western end of Long Island, in Brooklyn, NY
 == Participants ==
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+[[User:Yerushalmi|Yerushalmi]] ([[User talk:Yerushalmi|talk]]), his wife, #1, #3, #4
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 == Plans ==
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+I'm visiting my parents in NJ and keeping an eye out for good geohashes. We'll drive down to Brooklyn, go to the pier, then spend the rest of the day in the city.
 == Expedition ==
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+The drive to the neighborhood of the pier was fine, but our originally intended route (park on 42nd street, walk northwest) was stymied by massive amounts of construction and closed roads. I and #3 approached a guard at the construction site who told us that access to Bush Terminal Park was from down on 50th street.
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+We returned to the car and drove down to 50th street. After a short encounter with more guards (we had started driving towards a restricted part of the pier), we found a parking space and walked into the park.
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may use Template:Tracklog, post a link here, or both -->
+We walked past a couple of soccer fields and onto a path along the beach that led to the piers. The piers we passed looked interesting and fun, and we resolved to check them out on the way back, but the pier we wanted to reach...
+[[File:20240818_153115.jpg|400px]]
+Ah well. We enjoyed the breeze off the river, saw the Statue of Liberty off in the distance, and the kids collected some seashells. Not a complete waste of a journey.
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+File:20240818_153115.jpg | Closed pier for construction
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+File:20240818_153120.jpg | Still closed even if I turn to the left a bit
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+File:20240818_153155.jpg | The river
+File:20240818_153958.jpg | Where we should have been
+File:20240818_154009.jpg | Statue of Liberty in the background, #3 in the foreground
+File:20240818_154016.jpg | Zoom in on the Statue of Liberty
+File:20240818_154506.jpg | Some interesting algae
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